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Saturday Night Live landed successful nan UK pinch astir 230,000 viewers.
Sky’s remake of NBC’s 50-year-old drama bid has had a mixed group of reviews, which skew affirmative connected nan whole, and has already produced a mates of breakout moments — not slightest Jack Shep’s memorable Princess Diana astatine David Attenborough’s spoof past supper.
Saturday Night Live UK was watched by 226,000 viewers successful its 10PM slot connected Sky One. That gave it a 3.2% stock of nan disposable TV assemblage astatine nan time, according to charismatic BARB figures supplied by overnights.tv.
The 226,000 viewers intends it hit Channel 4 successful nan aforesaid slot — a rarity for immoderate Sky show. Channel 4 broadcast Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation to 215,000 people. The champion performing show astatine 10PM was nan BBC News connected BBC One, which was watched by astir 2M viewers.
Saturday Night Live UK‘s debut trounced nan U.S. type of nan show, which is shown connected Sky Comedy. Season 51 of NBC’s Saturday Night Live premiered pinch 6,800 viewers connected October 5, 2025. Last week’s Harry Styles-hosted section was watched by 4,550 viewers, though it did aerial 11.30PM.
Another useful comparator whitethorn beryllium A League of Their Own, Sky’s biggest drama intermezo bid complete much than a decade. The last play of A League of Their Own premiered connected November 12 pinch 60,000 viewers, a 4th of SNL UK’s first audience. In its first play connected Sky One, A League of Their Own sewage up to 600,000 viewers, successful a motion of really audiences person fragmented complete nan years.
Sky has ne'er put immense banal successful overnight ratings. Even earlier nan emergence of streaming, nan Comcast-owned broadcaster favored metrics that included repetition broadcasts and catch-up viewing. It intends that nan unrecorded assemblage for Saturday Night Live will conscionable beryllium 1 awesome of nan show’s success. Sky will besides facet successful viewing connected Now, its streaming service, arsenic good arsenic nan virality of online clips.
It is wholly plausible that a sketch could break retired of SNL UK and make much views than immoderate of nan broadcasts connected nan accepted TV web (one X/Twitter station featuring nan acold open already has much than a cardinal views). Saturday Night Live is besides a drama — and comedies notoriously return clip to build an audience. UK viewers will beryllium acquainted pinch nan U.S. version, but nan British version is created by a caller squad and is blooding a formed that is mostly unfamiliar to TV viewers.
